Arthur Lazere

Arthur Lazere

Mr. Lazere founded CultureVulture.net in 1998 and worked tirelessly to promote its potential as a means for communicating a distinctly personal yet wide-ranging selection of arts reviews. Under his…

Michael Wade Simpson

Mr. Simpson has a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and worked as an advertising writer in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue a different passion: dance. He…

Emily S. Mendel

Emily S. Mendel, a writer, and photographer, has been a regular contributor to culturevulture.net since 2006, where she concentrates her reviews on San Francisco theater and art. As a native New…
Suzanne Weiss

Suzanne Weiss

Suzanne Weiss has been writing about the arts for the past 35 years. Formerly Arts Editor for the papers of Pioneer Press in the northern Chicago suburban area, her work also has appeared in Stagebill…

Karen Weinstein

Weinstein is a clinical psychologist who teaches in the medical school at UCLA. She also holds a master’s degree in Urban Studies and has a strong interest in history and architecture, as well as the…

Lewis Whittington

Lewis Whittington writes about the performing and film arts for many publications. He is a renegade dance, theater and opera queen, a jazz-head and a civil activist….

Toba Singer

Toba Singer, author of “Fernando Alonso, the Father of Cuban Ballet” (University Press of Florida 2013), and “First Position: a Century of Ballet Artists” (Praeger 2007), writes for…

George Wu

George Wu holds a masters degree in cinema studies from NYU. He eats, drinks, and sleeps movies. Fortunately, he lives in New York City, the best place in the country for disorders of this type. He…

David E. Moreno

David E. Moreno E-RYT500, YACEP, SFT, is an internationally recognized yoga instructor who came to yoga after dancing professionally in a variety of modern dance companies and light opera…
Paula Farmer

Paula Farmer

Paula has worked as a features writer and film/book reviewer for various outlets such as Drum TV and WBAI Radio in New York, and Culture Vulture, and Marin Arts websites. She currently lives in the SF…

Lynne Friedmann

Lynne Friedmann, based in San Diego, is an award-winning, freelance writer of news, feature articles, and blogs on science, travel, and the arts. Her decades-long passion for theater was sparked as a…
Josh Baxt

Josh Baxt

Josh Baxt has an MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University and writes for a local nonprofit. His play, Like a War, was produced for the annual Fritz litz. Josh’s short fiction has been…
Nancy S. Bishop

Nancy S. Bishop

Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and chief theater critic for Third Coast Review, a Chicago-centric online arts magazine. She also reviews books, movies, music, art and design. Nancy is a member of the…
Andrew Osborne

Andrew Osborne

Andrew Osborne has written for websites including “Nerve,” “Rocker,” “Vanity Fair,” and “Wired.” He’s also written film, TV, comic, theatrical, and interactive scripts for Warner Bros., MTV, HBO,…
Renata Polt

Renata Polt

Renata Polt, a freelance writer and critic, is the translator and editor of A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother’s…
Karren LaLonde Alenier

Karren LaLonde Alenier

Karren Alenier is a swing-dancing poet whose opera, Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On, with composer William Banfield and New York City’s Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy…

Michael McDonagh

I’m a widely published poet, dramatist-filmmaker-director-actor, and writer on the arts. My poems have appeared in Mirage, Stanford’s Mantis, and many other places. I have written 3 fine art books of…

James Greenberg

James Greenberg was formerly editor in chief of the DGA Quarterly, the craft journal of the Directors Guild of America. He was film critic for Los Angeles magazine and has written for The New York…

Nella Vera

Nella Vera works in the professional theater as a Marketing Director for Broadway and off-Broadway shows. She is an adjunct professor of arts marketing at NYU….